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...Animal Matter. Three months ago, while walking through Bihar, Vinoba Bhave was seized with acute malaria. His temperature rose above 103, but he kept on walking as long as he could, then continued by bullock cart. In Chandil, a small village, he collapsed and was put to bed, but he refused all medication. "God," he said, "either wants to free me or desires to purify this body for employing it again in His work." He also refused to be taken to a hospital in Patna, the state capital. Said he: "Do not people also die in Patna...
Freshman golfers won their first match of the season yesterday, 5 1/2 to 3 1/2, at Governor Dummer. In match play the Crimson captured four of six contests. Cart Burt, Bill McAllister, Dick Savrann and Brock Stokes each won. In best ball competition, Yardling foursomes won one, lost one, and tied...
...modern and Mexican. The scene is a fortresslike, claustrophobic public square featuring such darkly symbolic places as a luxury hotel, a flophouse, a brothel, a pawnshop, and such darkly symbolic figures as a callous worldling who spits on common humanity, Storm-Trooperish policemen who cudgel it, street cleaners who cart its bodies off to the city dump. Around an arriving young American prizefighter with a bad heart flow loan sharks, plutocrats, cooch dancers, madams, homosexuals, a Casanova on his uppers, a Camille who herself must buy love, a Lord Byron who escapes to Greece for an ideal, a Don Quixote...
...also had time to observe his fellow exiles and to study their weaknesses. That maneuvering, waiting, ruthless mind of his was already shaping. Russia's defeat by Japan in 1904-05 brought on the October 1905 Revolution. Koba escaped from Siberia, traveled hundreds of miles by peasant cart, suffered frostbite, and arrived back in Tiflis. Here he married Katerina Svanidze, an illiterate Georgian girl, who bore him a son, Yakov. It was a strange kind of domesticity, being married to an agitator...
...resourcefulness when I call on her to serve as a reporter, too." Recently Segal complained to Reland, his wife, about the trouble he was having in finding family pictures for the cover story on Treasury Secretary George Humphrey. The next day, a photo of Humphrey & grandchildren in a pony cart turned up on Segal's desk (TIME, Jan. 26). Mrs. Segal had got it from Mrs. Humphrey...